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Healthwatch: Pat Rance

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 17th, 2009

Pat Rance, Bipedal Primate Reseacher holds a cast of a Bigfoot Wednesday, December 18th, 2007 in the Ocala National Forest taken from the Green Swamp in Florida in April of 2006. Bill Mitchell / Daily Sun.

Cryptomundo correspondent Steve Summar passes along word that “Pat Rance, aka ’skunkape,” from Orlando, suffered a near fatal heart attack Monday night [June 15, 2009] after returning from a week in the field squatching. Pat called me last evening after undergoing a successful interventional angioplasty yesterday. He is expected to be discharged and convalescing at home this week. Pat is an engineer and well known field researcher, specializing in thermal imaging, who has appeared with myself and many others on numerous BTR radio programs. He has worked closely with Diane Stocking, JL Johnson, myself and many others over the years including Wally Hersom and Matt Moneymaker.”

“We were finding dozens of footprints,” reporter Gary Corsair, Daily Sun quoted Pat Rance in 2007. The independent primate researcher from Longwood, Florida, told Corsair he briefly saw a “Skunk Ape” in the Green Swamp (a 110,000-acre labyrinth of wetlands, flatwoods and cypress domes in Florida).

Pat Rance looks very much like a successful owner of a Longwood business until he dons night-vision goggles, turns on his ultra-sensitive audio recorder and steps into the woods in search of Bigfoot.

Rance’s determination to prove Bigfoot exists has taken him to Mississippi, Oklahoma and throughout Florida. North Carolina is next. But it was right here in Central Florida, in the Green Swamp shared by Lake, Sumter and Polk counties, that he saw Bigfoot in April 2006.

”We were finding dozens of footprints, which isn’t surprising because there’s a long history of sightings down there,” Rance says.

”I really didn’t know what to think until I got into it and started finding different footprints, different sizes, different strides,” Rance recalled. ”I found some that looked like it was walking because they were about five feet apart. There were other prints where it looked like it was running. Those were nine feet apart and the dirt was pushed up on the sides of the print like it had come down hard. And then I found prints where it had jumped across a ditch. They were 26 feet apart.”

Rance and his friends, who call themselves ”bipedal primate researchers,” measured and photographed the prints. They poured plaster in the most defined prints.

There were so many prints, the researchers staked out the area, leaving apples, pancakes and a jar of peanut butter as lures.

”We set up video cameras and watched areas at night. Wed hide in the woods and try to get video, trying to see something,” Rance said. ”The next morning, there would be tracks right where we had been looking.”

Days passed without a sighting, so Rance changed tactics.

”I decided to go down a small trail, and set up my tent down there and pretended I was going to camp. I put a camcorder and tripod in the tent, pointed it out of the opening and left.”

On his third day at his ”pretend” camp, something visited the main camp, ate the pancakes, took 10 apples (and smashed two), and absconded with the peanut butter jar, leaving only the lid. After investigating the scene, Rance retrieved his camcorder from the other tent.

”We got there, and packed it up,” Rance said. ”We didn’t go 50 yards when something appeared on the trail in front of us. It went sideways into the palmetto and palm trees.”

A startled Rance turned to see the creature watching him from the dense foliage at the edge of the trail.

”It was dark, but I could see the outline. Its shoulders were this wide,” says Rance as he extends his arms about 18 inches from his sides. ”It was in the palmetto leaves, 30 or 40 feet away. I started to raise up my night-vision goggles and it took off.”

Did he really see Bigfoot?

”I saw it for five or six seconds. I know it wasn’t a bear. It was upright, dark and shaggy looking,” Rance said. ”I know what I saw, and there’s no doubt in my mind.” ~ Gary Corsair, Daily Sun, 2007.

“I believe JL Johnson of Grendel films profiled Pat in his Keeping the watch DVD,” recalls Summar. “I know Diane Stocking, Johnson, Jim Grant and myself have all been in the field with Pat.”

“I have introduced Pat to many “habituators,”" writes Summar. “He is well regarded in that ‘community.’ Chris Noel has worked with Pat, [and he is] referenced in Chris Noel’s recent Impossible Visits book and DVD.

Steve Summar would asks the Cryptomundo “readership to include Pat in their prayers.”

Pat Rance in his “false camp and thermal imager,” at an undisclosed habituation site, in Oklahoma, a few years ago; taken by Steve Summar. Used with permission.

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7 Responses to “Healthwatch: Pat Rance”

fossilhunter responds: June 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Greetings All!
Our thoughts and prayers to you Pat. Talk about synchronicity, I just finished a large chocolate shake! Gives one pause for thought! Thank goodness for the miracles of modern medicine!
Just out of curiosity, did the carefully wrapped up camcorder have anything interesting on the tape? It could have been a couple of lost folks looking for the “Earlybird Special”! (”Well, there was some pancakes and some fruit, but I don’t know why Floyd and Gladys made such a fuss, the place was filthy.”)
Get well quick Pat!
cryptidsrus responds: June 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Wish Pat Rance the speediest recovery. Get better, “Skunkape.”
zytebac responds: June 17th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Pat is both a gentleman and a fantastic squatcher.
Hope he is doing well and can get back ‘out there’ soon.
John L. Johnsen responds: June 17th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Although Pat was not profiled in Keeping the Watch he was slated to be in Keeping the Watch: Volume II due to be released later this summer. This will set the release date back as I don’t believe I have sufficient footage of him. But my main concern is for Pat and his health. I don’t believe I ever met a nicer guy. His dedication to the truth set him apart from some I have met in my adventures and his easy going nature is a breath of fresh air in a realm fraught with competition and rivalry. God speed Pat.
Ole Bub responds: June 17th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Update on Pat’s condition:

Thanks to Loren for posting this Health Watch

I talked to Pat and his wife, Miss Amy this afternoon, he is at home recovering from his interventional angioplasty. Having had two of these procedures myself, I will continue to keep a close eye on Pat, and provide periodic updates.

Pat is thankful for the kind thoughts and prayers expressed here and elsewhere.

It will be a while before Pat can resume his research efforts, he’s now officially a card carrying member of ole bub’s BSX cardiocare squatch research unit.

live and let live…

ole bub and the dawgs
Impossible Visits responds: June 18th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I want to echo everyone’s good wishes, Pat. You are a great friend, a lovable man, a first-rate Sasquatch researcher, and I know we will get that chance to take our thermals into the field after your recovery is full. (Yep, I finally got one!) We love you, Pat. Rest up and eat that Vermont maple syrup–no cholesterol!
raisinsofwrath responds: June 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am
God is watching over you Pat. May you be healed and blessed.

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